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Grade 2: Inquiring Minds Want to Know

Inquiry Task #1: For your grade / course, identify the "generic" inquiry-based skills you currently employ with your students.

  • Observing
  • Categorizing
  • Predicting
  • Collecting/Recording Data
  • Inferring
  • Performing Experiments

  • Design/Develop Experiment
























Inquiry Task #2: List the units that currently are taught in which inquiry skills appear.

  • Marvelous Metamorphosis
    • observe plastic butterflies
    • collect monarch data and predicting
    • practice inferring through mystery sock which contains mystery objects
  • Quarterly Assessments: Mushroom Experiment, Salty Pennies, Strongest Magnets

  • Animals in Winter
    • Observing gourds (Peter Woodbury...DIG replaces this if you'd like)
    • How do Animals Stay warm in winter?
    • Blubber Glove
    • Inferring with Animal Track rubbings (Peter Woodbury...DIG replaces this if you'd like)
      Marbles and Ramps (Peter Woodbury...DIG replaces this if you'd like)

  • BEST Visits
    • Mass
    • Temperature
    • Volume

  • Hurray for the USA
    • Sea shell observation ((Peter Woodbury...DIG replaces this if you'd like)
    • Penny flip predicting/Penny puddle/Penny grab: predicting, collecting and recording data
    • Penny spill (performing experiments)
    • Electricity: Designing and developing an experiment

  • Natural Wonders
    • Rocks, Mineral and Fossils
      • Bar magnet observation
      • Marble predicting
      • Sorting gems to collect data
      • Rotten Rock (inference)
      • Rock Hound, Washing the Rock Away and Making Rocks (performing experiments)
      • White Powders
    • Seeds and Plants
      • Seed sort (categorizing)
      • Flower (dissection)
      • Germinating/Tomato-sphere (prediction)
      • PEA seeds/Bean (data collection)
      • Stem study
      • Growing seeds (growing seeds) (Peter Woodbury...DIG replaces this if you'd like)
      • Gel-bees (performing experiments)
































Inquiry Task #3: Brain-storm ideas for how your current units or activities can be made more inquiry-based.
    1. Focus on questioning techniques and provide more questions for science exploration (see examples below or go to link Inquiry Questions):
      1. What does this make you think of?
      2. In what ways are these different?
      3. In what ways are these the same?
      4. Tell me what happened?
      5. Show me what you can do with it?

    2. Provide place-based, real world learning opportunities. For example doing the same lesson outside in the real world rather than a pencil paper lesson inside. Peter Woodbury, DIG will help with this.
    3. Holding tank for ideas and questions
    4. Provide students with science journals. Students can informal observations and drawings on one side of the journal and formal write-ups on the other.